in 2025 developers who are programming in PHP should still deal with str_replace, htmlspecialchars, nl2br (the list goes on and on).

(no, I don't want my IDE to babysit me, and ideally I don't want to use IDE at all)

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mikedelfino 2 hours ago | parent [-]

What do you mean developers should deal with functions like those? They're used when necessary, yes, just like any function. And no IDE is required. I'm really puzzled.

	▲	nalekberov an hour ago \| parent [-]
		> And no IDE is required. What else to say, good luck. You didn't get the anecdote, that's probably because you haven't worked with PHP (long enough). I will give hint: inconsistency.